A few problems, Geoff:
None of the well rehearsed expedients fixed my nV MX440 issues; presently abandoned for a Radeon card.
Several of the usual suspects of USB wireless dongles failed. Par for the course - will investigate later as have other working ones.
Default connection utility seems to be Frisbee - don't like it, never found it helpful or effective. SNS works for me (if anything works!).
Otherwise going well; fast and comprehensive.
Scope for size reduction?

A few problems, Geoff:
None of the well rehearsed expedients fixed my nV MX440 issues; presently abandoned for a Radeon card.
Several of the usual suspects of USB wireless dongles failed. Par for the course - will investigate later as have other working ones.
Default connection utility seems to be Frisbee - don't like it, never found it helpful or effective. SNS works for me (if anything works!).
Otherwise going well; fast and comprehensive.
Scope for size reduction?

as a friendly hint, you can use the custom builder if you want to shrink the size make Sage`s custom Carolina special twist of your own

Ah, yes, but i have form where SW juggling is concerned. Long-time Fora folk will know. I don't like it, it doesn't like me, it doesn't work, it devours valuable on-planet time, I don't do it: - leave it to the professionals....
But thanks, anyway.

A few problems, Geoff:
None of the well rehearsed expedients fixed my nV MX440 issues; presently abandoned for a Radeon card.
Several of the usual suspects of USB wireless dongles failed. Par for the course - will investigate later as have other working ones.
Default connection utility seems to be Frisbee - don't like it, never found it helpful or effective. SNS works for me (if anything works!).
Otherwise going well; fast and comprehensive.
Scope for size reduction?

What ever worked for you in the previous version should also work with this one, there as been no updates to hardware compatibility, only software updates and a few added features.

Frisbee works out of the box with all the computers I've tried Carolina on, the hardware mustn't be found if it's not working for you.

Carolina isn't for everyone's hardware, I too have had problems with hardware issues with certain laptops.

see if that helps, I don't have anything here at the moment to test with.

If anyone has any tips that overcome hardware compatibly problems, please post them here, I will create a list of confirmed fixes or workaround and put a link to them in the first post of this thread._________________Carolina:Recent Repository AdditionsCreate strikethrough textHERE

Thanks for all those helpful tips, Geoff.
All my HW is ASP-homebuild. Swapping is the name of the game chez moi.
Xfce, Opera, SNS are my favoured selections, HW is my bag. if you want me to fix your boiler, pipework, roof, plasterwork, build a studwall, electrics, even build/renovate/upgrade/strip a PC- just call. But for SW I have to rely on gurus like your goodself, so thanks again.

Has anyone managed to get a recent version of Chromium working in Carolina? I tried to run Iron (for Lucid) in it and was told I needed a certain version of GLIBC (2.11 IIRC) before it would run, so I didn't bother.

Has anyone managed to get a recent version of Chromium working in Carolina? I tried to run Iron (for Lucid) in it and was told I needed a certain version of GLIBC (2.11 IIRC) before it would run, so I didn't bother.

Thanks in advance,

CP .

The version of google chrome in the repo is the last version that will run in Carolina, look in the sfs downloader of the ppm

Code:

# ldd --version
ldd (GNU libc) 2.10.1
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Written by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.

There is a list of puppies and the glibc versions they use here http://puppylinux.org/wikka/glibc

I haven't tried it, but this may work http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=437391#437391_________________Carolina:Recent Repository AdditionsCreate strikethrough textHERE

Hi Geoffrey :
I want to install Virtual Box to run Win xp in carolina. Tried different sfs files of vbox. also load the devx file of carolina, but no success. please help.
Thanks in advance.
UMAIR

I've built the latest Virtual Box version 4.2.3 r90405 with kernel drivers for both the PAE and Non-PAE, this should run without having to load the devx and kernel source, get virtualbox-4.3.2-carolina.sfs from the repo, use PPM sfs downloader._________________Carolina:Recent Repository AdditionsCreate strikethrough textHERE

Has anyone managed to get a recent version of Chromium working in Carolina? I tried to run Iron (for Lucid) in it and was told I needed a certain version of GLIBC (2.11 IIRC) before it would run, so I didn't bother.

Thanks in advance,

CP .

The version of google chrome in the repo is the last version that will run in Carolina, look in the sfs downloader of the ppm

Code:

# ldd --version
ldd (GNU libc) 2.10.1
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Written by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.

There is a list of puppies and the glibc versions they use here http://puppylinux.org/wikka/glibc

I haven't tried it, but this may work http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=437391#437391

Following that thread and using what seems like the most up to date deb for 2.11, I can indeed run SlimBoat in Carolina 1.0, non-pae. Defaults to locale C but SlimBoat ( which is webkit based and requires 2.11 ) runs quite well. Haven't flogged everything else but opera, editors, thunar... all seem ok. Figured I'd have a last hurrah with 1.0 for better or for worse. More and more sites are breaking Opera 12.16 and so far they all work in SlimBoat (as does flash). Like opera, I have it installed in the boot partition and shared by all the pups in the kennel._________________Pups currently in kennel X-slacko 2.3.2n and 3b6, LxpupTahr 15.02 non-PAE, and trusty Carolina/Carolite (now battleshooters 1.3-vanguard edition R2). All lean and steady pups. Oh, and Lx flavours of unicornpup for fun

Oh dear - FlashPlayer issues again! Loaded the repo suggested version (11-??-222) but it doesn't enable for BBC iPlayer - show stopping for Brits and Commonwealth cousins/overseas subscribers. Bound to be one version that works, but which?! It's as much Auntie's fault, but that doesn't solve the issue! Maybe we shouldn't've elected a non-IT literate PM who took the Devil's shilling, but we are where we are.

Oh dear - FlashPlayer issues again! Loaded the repo suggested version (11-??-222) but it doesn't enable for BBC iPlayer - show stopping for Brits and Commonwealth cousins/overseas subscribers. Bound to be one version that works, but which?! It's as much Auntie's fault, but that doesn't solve the issue! Maybe we shouldn't've elected a non-IT literate PM who took the Devil's shilling, but we are where we are.

What version as worked for you in the past, there are others in the repo if you do a manual search.

I think this is the oldest http://smokey01.com/carolina/pet_packages-carolina/flash_player_11_linux.i386.pet

There more here http://smokey01.com/carolina/old_packages/

When you get it working can you please let us know which one worked for you, then we won't have this issue again.